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What are person does with their home is none of your business. You want to prevent homestays? Lower property taxes and pay higher rents. If you can’t compete with homestay rates, then you have nothing to complain about. But to sit there and think the hotels aren’t laughing at you is funny. All the way to the bank.

If you were smart you’d allow homestays. You’d pass a yearly fee on them. And the property taxes along with that fee would double your revenue. But it takes someone who has half a brain to realize that all you’re doing is forcing people out so even wealthier people can move here. And you end up with even more gentrification. On top of the owners of the condos in downtown having the ability to rent them out on a daily basis.

Homestays are legal with a permit.
There are no issues with homestays, there are a lot of issues with whole house rentals, therein lies the difference.
Sure you can do what ever you want with your property, but if you want to run a hotel then apply for the licenses and get your home rezoned to commercial. The rest of us purchased homes in residential neighborhoods and not commercial neighborhoods, because we want to live in a residential neighborhood.
When the street you live on goes from being a neighborhood to a ghost town except on Friday, Saturday when the Charlotte/ Atlanta drinkers arrive, it is a big problem.

I haven’t looked in quite a while, but are ADUs and AirB&Bs part of the homestay permitting?
Homestays are those in which the owners still live in or on the property… aren’t they?
Why would they be vacant except for the weekends?
Thanks in advance!

Homestays are where the person still lives in the home, they are legal, work great for homeowners and are no problem at all.
ADUs are still under discussion and can be argued both ways.
WHOLE HOUSE rentals where the owner is absent and could be living anywhere in the world are the issue.
Big corporations (like the hotel groups) also purchase homes and run them with agencies if there is no legislation against them, they are a huge problem for neighborhoods.
There is one company here in Asheville?Buncombe that currently owns and runs 60 homes as vacation rentals.

LOL they’re empty anyway. Oh sure people live there but they don’t do much of anything else. I could understand if it were like in the past where neighbors knew each other and their kids played in the streets, but those days are long gone. And your inability to discern between loud drunks and tourist is telling. If the town is simply a place for drunks to gather, then why do you want to continue with it?

As a responsible resident you should rake up your leaves, put them in a bag and the city will pick them up. Or better yet, start a compost pile in your yard, leaves will be gone by spring, or just leave them on your precious lawn and mulch them up. With so many cars parked on the street the city can barely clean anything or clear the snow.

LOL as a responsible citizen, I get up and go to work so I can pay the taxes that the government is supposed to use to upkeep the streets with. And if they lower or get rid of services that were once common, then they should also lower the taxes. It’s funny how they collect leaves downtown isn’t t? And wash the sidewalks. I can’t even get the sidewalk repaired in front of my house though.

Thanks Amy for speaking up for the people that don’t get corporate welfare from the supposed “progressives” “representing” the city! It was nice meeting you at the “soul of money” meeting! I enjoyed the conversation.